Alice Silverberg

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Alice Silverberg
Bornc. 1958 (age 6566)
Nationality American
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of California, Irvine
Thesis Mordell-Weil groups of generic polarized abelian varieties (1984)
Doctoral advisor Goro Shimura
Website www.math.uci.edu/~asilverb/

Alice Silverberg (born 1958) [1] is professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. [2] She was faculty at the Ohio State University from 1984 through 2004. [2] She has given over 300 lectures at universities around the world, and she has brought attention to issues of sexism and discrimination through her blog Alice's Adventures in Numberland.

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Research

Silverberg's research concerns number theory and cryptography. With Karl Rubin, she introduced the CEILIDH system for torus-based cryptography in 2003, [3] and she currently holds 10 patents related to cryptography. [2] She is also known for her work on theoretical aspects of abelian varieties. [4] [5]

Education and career

Silverberg graduated from Harvard University in 1979, [2] and received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984 under the supervision of Goro Shimura. [6] She began her academic career at Ohio State University in 1984 and became a full professor in 1996. She moved to the University of California at Irvine in 2004 as Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, and in 2018 she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor. [2] Over the past 25 years she has organized or co-organized more than ten conferences in mathematics and cryptography, and has served on the program committees of more than twenty others. [2] Silverberg has a long record of service with the American Mathematical Society and is currently a member of their nominating committee. [2] She has served as an editor for the Association for Women in Mathematics since 2008, [2] and recently joined the board of the Number Theory Foundation. [7]

Honors

In 2012, Silverberg became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [8] She was elected to the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics "For her outstanding research in number theory and deep commitment to the promotion of fairness and equal opportunity evidenced by her service and outreach efforts", also citing her many invited lectures and her blog. [9]

Additional work

In 2017, Silverberg began a blog entitled Alice's Adventures in Numberland, which humorously discusses issues surrounding sexism in academia. [10] This is a topic which she has previously discussed in interviews, [11] and has been quoted on. [12]

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References

  1. Birth year from ISNI authority control file, retrieved 2 December 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Curriculum Vitae, University of California, Irvine, retrieved 18 January 2020.
  3. Rubin, Karl; Silverberg, Alice (2003), "Torus-based cryptography", Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2729, Springer, pp. 349–365, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-45146-4_21 .
  4. Silverberg, Alice (1992), "Fields of definition for homomorphisms of abelian varieties", Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra , 77 (3): 253–262, doi: 10.1016/0022-4049(92)90141-2 , MR   1154704 .
  5. Silverberg, Alice (1988), "Torsion points on abelian varieties of CM-type", Compositio Mathematica , 68 (3): 241–249, MR   0971328, Zbl   0683.14002 .
  6. Alice Silverberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. Board of directors, Number Theory Foundation , retrieved 20 January 2020
  8. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  9. AWM Fellows: 2019 Class of Fellows, Association for Women in Mathematics , retrieved 26 January 2019
  10. "Alice's Adventures in Numberland" . Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  11. "Interview with Alice Silverberg". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  12. Fine, Cordelia (2005). Delusions of gender: The real science behind sex differences. Icon Books Ltd.